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ServiceMax promises accelerating growth as key to $1.4B SPAC deal

ServiceMax, a company that builds software for the field-service industry, announced yesterday that it will go public via a special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, in a deal valued at $1.4 billi

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No plans to change sensitivity of COVID app after half a million people pinged in a week

The number of people being told to isolate by the NHS Test and Trace app reached half a million last week, throwing some businesses - including car makers Nissan and Rolls-Royce - into chaos as dozens of their workers were forced to stay home.

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Man builds 'Forbidden City' with 700,000 Legos

A miniature version of Beijing's Forbidden City has been on display at a kindergarten in Panyu, Guangzhou, South China's Guangdong Province, attracting many children.The model nearly recreates

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India poised for record VC year as unicorns head for decisive IPOs

In case you’ve not been paying attention, we’ll say it again: The global venture capital industry is on fire. The second quarter of 2021 was the largest single three-month period on record

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Cleo Capital’s Sarah Kunst explains how to get ready to raise your next round

TechCrunch virtually sat down with venture capitalist and Cleo Capital managing director Sarah Kunst at our latest Early Stage event last week. Kunst joined us to chat about preparing for raising capi

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'Dramatic' Perseids meteor shower starts tonight - here's how to watch in the UK

If you find yourself struggling to sleep over the next month, you could catch a glimpse of a stunning meteor shower if you head outside.

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EU in legal action against Hungary and Poland for LGBT+ discrimination

03:16 The European Commission has launched legal action against Hungary and Poland for breaking EU law by discriminating against LGBT+ citizens.Hungary recently implemented what's been

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Search for Florida condo collapse victims nears end

The rubble of the demolished section of the Champlain Towers South building is seen through flowers on a makeshift memorial to the scores of victims of the building's partial collapse, July 12, 2

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Huguosi Street – The old residence of Peking Opera master Mei Lanfang

05:44 Huguosi Street was one of Beijing's busiest commercial streets in the old days. It was also the former residence of Peking Opera master Mei Lanfang. Today, Huguos

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Biden says sending troops to Haiti 'not on the agenda'

U.S. President Joe Biden said Thursday the United States is only sending marines to bolster security at its embassy in Haiti but the idea of sending American troops into the Caribbean country was "no

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Revolut’s 2020 financial performance explains its big new $33B valuation

News broke this morning that Revolut, a U.K.-based consumer fintech player, raised a Series E round of funding worth $800 million at a valuation of $33 billion. Those figures are breathtaking not only

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Scaling CockroachDB in the red ocean of relational databases

Most database startups avoid building relational databases, since that market is dominated by a few goliaths. Oracle, MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server have embedded themselves into the technical fabric

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CockroachDB, the database that just won’t die

There is an art to engineering, and sometimes engineering can transform art. For Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis, those two worlds collided when they created the widely successful open-source graphic

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GM to launch fleet charging service to power commercial EVs, even at home

GM and its new EV business unit BrightDrop are launching a fleet charging service as the automaker aims to ramp up its bet on connected and electric commercial vehicles.The service, branded Ultium Cha

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Afghan cyclist leads the way for refugees at the Tokyo Olympics

01:33 Afghan refugee Masomah Ali Zada hopes to be a beacon for women forced to quit their country or abandon their sporting dreams when she crosses the start line at the Tokyo Olympics.

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Chinese companies to supply millions of COVID-19 vaccines to COVAX

A picture taken on March 5, 2021 at an international airport in Entebbe, Uganda shows boxes of COVID-19 vaccines being unloaded from a plane after their delivery as a part of the UN-led Covax ini

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Tracing origins of COVID-19 should not be politicized: SA official

A digital illustration of the COVID-19. /Reuters Countries must refrain from using tracing the origins of COVID-19 to score cheap political points, a South African official has said."What is i